ABSTRACT
THE Persian Gulf War and the two rebellions that followed uprooted 3 million people in great swirling currents of communal flight. It hurtled Kurds as far as Oklahama and Shiites to Sydney. It caged thousands in camps for many years and forced thousands to go back to the places they fled. It compelled a newly crowded country called Yemen to evict people who seemed to be fleeing some incomprehensible calamity in Somalia.
